Jewish Studies Minor

Curriculum

The five-course minor consists of:

• 3 Jewish Civilization courses and 2 courses representing 2 of these 4 elective groups: Bible, Theology, and History of Interpretation; History, Art, and Archaeology; Literature; Philosophy; or
• 2 Jewish Civilization courses and 3 courses representing 3 elective groups, or
• 1 Jewish Civilization course and 4 courses representing 3 or 4 elective groups.

Jewish Civilization courses:

• HIST 260 - Jewish Civilization I or
• CLAS 180 - Jewish Civilization I
• HIST 262 - Jewish Civilization II (600-1400)
• HIST 263 - Jewish Civilization III (1400-present)

Bible, Theology, and History of Interpretation elective group:

• THEO 211 - The Dead Sea Scrolls or
• CLAS 211 - The Dead Sea Scrolls
• THEO 226 - Hellenism, Judaism, Christianity
• THEO 246 - Biblical Archaeology
• THEO 251 - Intro to Hebrew Scriptures
• THEO 253 - Psalms and Wisdom Literature
• THEO 254 - Interpreting the Book of Esther
• THEO 255 - Old Testament Prophets
• THEO 258 - The Bible and Anti-Judaism
• THEO 268 - Sem: Paul and Anti-Judaism
• THEO 273 - Intro to Biblical Hebrew or
• CLAS 173 - Intro to Biblical Hebrew
• THEO 280 - Readings in Biblical Hebrew
• THEO 284 - Jews and the Gospels
• THEO 292 - The Torah / Pentateuch
• THEO 296 - Jewish Interpretations of Job
• THEO 327 - Bioethics: Jewish and Catholic
• THEO 383 - Introduction to Kabbalah

History, Art and Archaeology elective group:

• CLAS 171 - Ancient Iraq and Bible Lands
• CLAS 251 - Near Eastern Mythology: Art
• CLAS 307 - Biblical Archaeology
• HIST 264 - Hellenism, Judaism, Christianity
• HIST 351 - Zionism and Modern Israel
• HIST 464 - Russian Jewish History
• THEO 319 - Anti-Semitism: The Great Hatred
• THEO 353 - The Holocaust

Literature elective group:

• CLAS 252 - Near Eastern Mythology: Lit
• ENGL 336 - Israeli Literature
• ENGL 350 - Modern Jewish Fiction
• ENGL 351 - Jewish American Literature

Philosophy elective group:

• PHIL 309 - Medieval Islamic and Jewish Phil
• PHIL 383 - Spinoza